Re: Persistent predators at Schoningen

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

Horse (Equus mosbachensis) remains dominate the assemblage and suggest a recurrent ambush hunting strategy along the margins of the Schöningen paleo-lake.

I like the ambush hunting but, aren't we talking about throwing
spears?
I have long argued that throwing spears vanished from the
archaeological record BECAUSE they took to ambush hunting...
People ambush hunt today. If you look you can even find videos
of them doing it, though not for the squeamish as we are speaking
of videos of hunting.
I always assumed that they'd just find a watering hole and/or
game trail, sit up high in an overhanging tree limb and then
stab down on the first animal that wanders by. But I have seen
videos wear hunters, modern hunters, lurk in the underbrush &
stab at an animal from there. Effective? Yes. But not so much
when talking about a dangerous animal. A Wild Boar, for
example, would likely have torn their leg apart for havign
stabbed them... and a bear either runs or kills you.
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